Cover Drive

In a bid to outdo novelist Graham Greene's record of 500 book reviews

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Clawing back from the abyss

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What is often considered an end to life is, at times, a humble start to a new beginning. At least this happened with two-time Oscar nominee ...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Harnessing creative energies of human intelligence and AI

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Whether or not artificial intelligence will outsmart human ingenuity has been rested in favor of co-intelligence where both will collaborate...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Enriched legacy

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Laali Mausi would always hug Ajit and call him her son. Other villagers would gather around to dissuade her from calling the stranger her so...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Yoga as political thought and practice

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Traditionally, the focus has been on two spheres of yoga practices, commonly identified as the psychophysical and the philosophical. These t...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Why breath should be not taken for granted?

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At the start of 2020, a small team of scientists tried and failed to convince public health organizations that COVID-19 was spread through t...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

A lip-licking indulgence

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Ice cream is a growing indulgence that few would choose to go without. Be with sugar or without, high fat or low, soft serve or kulfi, ice c...
Friday, May 23, 2025

How to lose yourself?

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The world is increasingly getting obsessed with self-promotion and a thinking that it alone can bring about peace and progress. The growing ...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Be a woman once

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Writing is an intellectual pursuit, but it’s also creative labor and a social and political statement. In doing so, one becomes a witness to...
Monday, May 12, 2025

The will to ignorance is as strong as the desire to know

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If ignorance is indeed bliss, as a poet once wrote, it also can be said that human beings “are creatures who want to know and not to know.” ...
Friday, May 2, 2025

The religious congregation with a distinct identity

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Punjab is known for its sprawling deras – places where self-proclaimed religious heads recite sermons and run the institution as a personal ...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

To seek a philosophy of one's own

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Are Greeco-Roman philosophies still relevant to our times? Aren’t our modern problems much different from those faced by people in ancient t...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

History repeats itself

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Has the world plunged into a crisis, and that too permanently? The geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan has every reason to believe so. Moreso...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

A dera for everyone

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Punjab is known for its sprawling deras - a place where a self-proclaimed religious head recites sermons - and there are some 9,000 of such...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

No time to die, James Bond

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F or over six decades, from 1962 till 2021, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films’ combinat...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Let life be without unhappiness

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There has never been as much unhappiness in human life as today. The fear of having less and desire of having more has contributed as much. ...
Monday, March 17, 2025

The unassuming grain

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By 2050, cities will feed 70 per cent of the world population, which will by then have reached 9 billion. Though maize is most produced in t...
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